News anchor charlie dagata biography
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CBS News foreign correspondent apologises for saying Ukraine is more ‘civilised’ than Iraq and Afghanistan
A senior foreign correspondent for CBS News has apologised after claiming on air that the attack on Ukraine cannot be compared to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because the Eastern europeisk country is more “civilised”.
On Thursday (24 February), Russia launched a full-scale attack on its neighbour. Heavy fighting is underway in Ukraine’s second city as Russian troops entered Kharkiv in the early hours of Sunday morning (27 February).
Charlie D’Agata was reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday (25 February) when he told viewers that Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades”.
He continued: “This is a relatively civilised, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city, where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.”
The clip of D’Agata’s comments was shared w
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Charlie D'Agata has been the London-based correspondent for CBS Newspath, the affiliate news service of CBS News, since October 2005 and is Newspath's first internationally based correspondent. Prior to that, he was CBS Radio's ledare overseas correspondent (2002-05).
D'Agata was the first American journalist in Baghdad 10 months before the U.S.-led invasion and was an embedded reporter during the Iraq War. He witnessed first-hand the fall of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit and was one of the first reporters in Fallujah when U.S. Marines fired on Iraqi civilians. Since 2003, D'Agata has covered every major event in Iraq, including the first suicide bombings at the UN and the Jordanian Embassy; the establishment of the Green Zone; the capture of Saddam Hussein; the handover of power; the fight for Fallujah; the fall of Tikrit; the country's first free and fair elections, and the trial of Saddam Hussein.
D'Agata has also been a correspondent for many other international ev
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PERSON: Charlie D'Agata
Biography
Charlie D’Agata was named a London-based CBS News correspondent in October 2011. Previously, he was the London-based correspondent for CBS Newspath, the affiliate news service of CBS News, since October 2005 and was Newspath’s first internationally based correspondent. Prior to that, he was CBS Radio’s chief overseas correspondent (2002-05).
D’Agata was the first American journalist in Baghdad 10 months before the U.S.-led invasion and was an embedded reporter during the Iraq War. He witnessed first-hand the fall of Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit and was one of the first reporters in Fallujah when U.S. Marines fired on Iraqi civilians. Since 2003, D’Agata has covered every major event in Iraq, including the first suicide bombings at the U.N. and the Jordanian Embassy; the establishment of the Green Zone; the capture of Saddam Hussein; the handover of power; the fight for Fallujah; the fall of Tikrit; the country’s first free and fai